Printing of array-valued elements

[Robert Field]

All good suggestions, thanks, created:

8133020 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8133020>
JShell API: special printing for arrays

-Robert

> On Aug 3, 2015, at 2:13 PM, Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com <mailto:jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>> wrote:
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> On 08/03/2015 12:31 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>> The toString() method on arrays is generally unhelpful (inherited from Object.)  Since jshell is a read-eval-PRINT loop, it might be nice to print the result of array-valued expressions in a friendlier manner, such as by using Arrays.toString(array) instead of array.toString(). (Might want to limit this to arrays of below a certain length.  (Might want to allow that limit to be set by preferences.))
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>> So we'd get
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>> [ 1, 2, 3 ]
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>> instead of
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>> [I at 2048230
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> If arrays are big, how about printing "the first few" and "the last few", separate by "...", as in
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> [ 1, 2, 3, ..., 98, 99, 100 ]
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> -- Jon